Nantucket-based photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh's website features photos that are all things coastal: images of surfing, boats, people and, of course, the ocean. But then he captured this - a "slurpee" wave.

Before he ever thought of being a movie director, Neill Blomkamp was pretty handy with a pencil and a pad of paper. Growing up in Johannesburg, South Africa, he was, as he puts it, “unbelievably visually-oriented. I would draw relentlessly. Then I...

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed allegations that Argentine President Cristina Fernandez tried to cover-up the involvement of Iranian officials in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center, easing a crisis for her government fed by the death of the...